Post by Enderminion on Mar 12, 2017 16:51:13 GMT

yes they are in game, use sodium as coolant, Lead-Bismuth reactors are even safer and have moderating properties on the reactor core itself, though the soviet navy lost a sub because the Lead coolant froze at sea.

EDIT: we have sodium reactors in game, a salt reactor would use NaCl coolant rather then the Na coolant used by all the good reactors on the standards thread

Post by on Mar 12, 2017 19:29:59 GMT

The salt isn't just the coolant in a MSR, it's the fuel.Well actually it's both. In the inner cycle a mix of molten uraniumfluoride and other fluorin salts is used as fuel and coolant at the same time.In a sodium or Lead-Bismuth cooled reactor you would still have a solid fuel. in a MSR the fuel is already molten so you can have core temperatures which are not limited by the meltingpoint of the fuel but the containment.

Post by Enderminion on Mar 12, 2017 20:21:25 GMT

The salt isn't just the coolant in a MSR, it's the fuel.Well actually it's both. In the inner cycle a mix of molten uraniumfluoride and other fluorin salts is used as fuel and coolant at the same time.In a sodium or Lead-Bismuth cooled reactor you would still have a solid fuel. in a MSR the fuel is already molten so you can have core temperatures which are not limited by the meltingpoint of the fuel but the containment.

ahh ok, I did not know there was a difference

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Post by newageofpower on Mar 18, 2017 3:28:10 GMT

All tested and currently proposed MSRs operate far below the temperatures we run our reactor cores at. A reactor with TaHfC as it's solid-side machinery and using molten salts may offer advantages over our current CoADE reactors, but it's possible that a reactor using TaHfC encased liquid fuel pellets would be superior.